The president of Washington and Lee University, Kenneth Ruscio, announced in an email this afternoon that the eight regimental Confederate battle flags on display in Lee Chapel, which rests above the crypt where Robert E. Lee and his family are buried, will be removed. He also issued a public apology for slavery.

Back in April, a group of 12 black law students that call themselves “the Committee” issued a series of demands because they reportedly felt “alienation and discomfort” on a campus where blacks are only 3.5 percent of the student body:

1.We demand that the University fully recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the undergraduate campus.

2.We demand that the University stop allowing neo-confederates to march on campus with confederate flags on Lee-Jackson Day.

3.We demand that the University immediately remove all confederate flags from its property and premises, including those flags located within Lee Chapel.

4.We demand that the University issue an official apology for the University’s participation in chattel slavery, including a denunciation of General Robert E. Lee’s participation in slavery.

From Waaay Out West,

~HLM

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As Serenity walked along the avenue, he saw many Functionaries that he recognized, but he didn’t dare say anything to, salute, or even look at them directly. Any such behavior could be interpreted as sexual harassment by the woman in question, and if a complaint were filed against him—well, that could mean weeks or months in a Rehabilitation Center.

If there is ANY place where there should be absolutely no dispute that the Confederate battle flag is entirely appropriate, it's in that chapel. This isn't just some random chapel with a memorial to Lee (that's not uncommon in the South, and even the Episcopalian National Cathedral in Washington, DC has a little memorial to Lee in its nave), it's his actual tomb, and those are the flags he fought under. Even if you don't agree with everything he did, he still deserves respect.

This is just more idiotic political correctness, trying to erase our history (as if very many people even know much about it any more).

Sean.

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Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

You think the removal of the flags are bad? Just wait until the entire chapel is removed and rebranded into some LGBTQ-adlghadkfjgndafgndaf headquarters! Why are you so called white people in the area not in the streets!?

The people behind this are all sick in the head. "datss racist" only goes so far, you are desecrating the gravesite of a relic of Southern history and one of the greatest Southerners to ever live, if not the greatest, over your feelings... I mean, how much more are you willing to take White man? How can I claim allegiance to this country anymore when the thought police are allowed to censor history and spit on my heritage like this? Are we all to stand passively by and watch as our history is wiped out to be replaced by the degenerate evils of modern America? There is a deep spiritual sickness residing in most Americans, and the Washington and Lee protestors embody it best.

What's next? Removing the thousands of monuments to rebel soldiers in town squares all across the South? Removing all headstones from the graves of CSA dead? How about forcing the descendents of rebel soldiers to take a "loyalty oath," forsaking the honor of their ancestors? I mean, they were like, as bad as "NAZIS" n' stuff.